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A timely topic, for me anyway. Fake antivirus, fake antispyware
and so forth seems to be more and more common. I just had to remove
one from my daughter's computer. It was Personal Antivirus.

Forums I went to said to get Malwarebytes to fix it.
Sure enough, I couldn't get to the Malwarebytes site, but
was consistently redirected. I was able to download the tool on another
computer, and solve the problem. These things are agressive!
How do most non-tech people cope? I guess they are abandoning
their PCs and getting iPhones?

No... not just iPhones... they are getting Macs. Because it is impossible to get infected on a Mac... Their security is so INVINCIBLE! That, and they just work. lol

Really though, most normal people I know bring the system to me to have it removed.

I have played around with several of these on a VM that I have set up just for infections. Some of them are pretty clever. You can usually bypass the blocks with a proxy, then download the file. Sometimes you even have to rename the MBAM executable to get it to run. Fun stuff eh?

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